Yeah. Compute was a term for calculation verb and noun far earlier than a term for computers. 

 That’s wild. I thought the first “computers” were people in a room writing stuff on paper but I didn’t know something could have “compute” or do “compute” or whatever 

 That’s what’s great about here, I don’t feel like the oddball because I don’t know a random thing , I’d have been filleted on X for not knowing the latest slang term for instance 

 Earliest evidence of compute as noun is from 1483 

 I’d love to read that, whatever it is - I enjoy etymological stuff like this 

 Provided there’s a translation if it’s in Dutch 

 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrimage_of_the_Soul 

 Nice! I’ll check it out 

 Didn’t find the word compute in that wiki 

 Lots of nouns are verbs now

Like “adulting” for instance 

 I think some are made up 😆 
The nature of English language is to simplify and take shortcuts. 

 I’m making #SIMPING into a thing 
Let it be 

 Definitely  it’s funny how some words are in style at a particular time, like when Collusion was everywhere awhile ago, it was used over 30 times in House of Cards 

 I've noticed that each generation makes up new words or gives new meanings to old words. Like "lit", as in "this party is lit" or that's "fire." And words can take opposite meanings of what they usually mean, e.g. "bad" as Michael Jackson sang it meant "awesome" or "cool." Or something can be 💩 (bad) or be "the 💩" (good). 😄 

 Haha, that is the opposite mutation though. Noun turned to verb. 

 Corporate speak is often abbreviating things and leaving out awkward to say modifiers is common.

Processing power is a lot more of a mouthful than compute. Also people rarely use the word otherwise, it has nerdy, cheesball AI connotations thanks to Hollywood.

There is many precedents of this kind of changing of verbs to nouns in context long before anyway.

Really, nouns are a kind of fallacy, in that is reality all is a process or action. There are some languages that focus heavily on nouns and a more imperative tone, like Bulgarian, the majority of other European languages are focused on nouns, and Bulgarian is a very old language in it's grammar, one of the oldest in Europe, maybe over 6500 years.

I am of the opinion this degradation is one of the many signs of the decay of a society. 

 Er, I meant focus on verbs. Bulgarian has a elaborate, extended set of verb tenses, a notable one being reported speech. 

And in modern colloquial speech they use the word vika/vikam (they/he said, I said) which is actually present tense like I say, he say, like the ,"I say I say I say" expression.

The word actually means to call out also, kaza or kazvam means to say.